The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-07-13
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items o. Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

tH-NOFernOT NOTlll, oi -hdiiiC, II uS''|'
The St. Louis coopcragc establishment
was burnt Monday. Loss 500, 600.
The Postmaster General has lust estab-
lished 355 new money order offices; none
in South Carolina.
The sales of tobacco at Lynchjurg, Va,
during the month OF June amounted to
i 1920, 600 pounds.
Hinton Miller, treasurer of Perry county,
H., is 4 dcfaultcr to the amount OF $6..
900. He has gone to Canada.
The Irish land bill was read the first time
in the House of Commons on Monday.
The second reading was 1iXeG FOR the llth.
The drought in the midland and north
ern counties OF England was terminated
Gu Monday night by copious falls Of rain
The total amount received for the benefit
Of tie Opera ComiQue fire sufferers was
Gi3, 600 francs.
Lord Salisbury has extended Sir Henry
Drummond Wollf's Sta? at Constantinoplc
until Saturday next.
Governor ard Mrs Fitzhugh Lee have
left Ncw York for Richmond on the Old
Dominion steamer Seneca.
Tic Sobrauje is holding private meet
ing to choose a prince, Alexander having
absolutely declined to acccp: reelection.
twenty-five new cases have been sent up
by the Barnwell 6. c. Trial Justices for
the consideration Of the Court next week.
The directors OF the Panama Canal Com
pany will hold 4 meeting on Friday next to
discuss the question Of issuing a new loan
Government receipts since July amount
to S:,4777, ,6S4. and expenditures to SD,
56T1 49,, Or $40 0S9, SOB in excess Of the re-
ccipts
The telegraph. telephone and electric
lighting companies in New York city have
been ordered to put their wires under
ground.
The Comtc de Paris had another reccp-
ton on the Island of jersey Tuesday. His
visitors numbered 100 and included num-
Der OF distinguished royalists.
General Howard has been advised that a
general court-martial has been convened to
try the Apachcs who deserted recently and
went on raid in Arizona
Mike Brown, of BarnwelI. s. c.. is hav-
ing . fifty-light gas machine put up, and
will soon have his storehouses illuminated
in city style.
The President spent the Fourth Of July
very quietly, riding in from Oakview in
the iIorning as usual and rejcining Mrs.
Cleveland at Oakview in the afternoon.
England and Russia have made mutual
concessions regarding the Afghan bound
ary questions. which it is expected will re-
suit "a an early agreement between the two
| nations
Al the meeting of the nationalist mem
bcrs of the Dublin corporation Mr.. Sexton
was unanimously nominated for Lord
Mayer, Winstanley secondin:: the nomina-
| ton
Martial law has been proclaimed in Val
cnci:f. Spain. Twcnty-one persons nave
been arrested for completely in riotins
against the collectors of octro tax.
Tie immense malt house of the Weber
Brewing Company at Cincinnati was
burned Monday night Loss $1GO,O00.
Three men were killed by falling walls.
\ special to the Springfield tMass) Re
pudltcUn says the Bp$t0n Daily -1dcerttse1
aud the Ecening Record have been sold to
Charles Z. Wliten, of Whitcnvillc, for
$1QU, ,0C0.
AGviccs from China state that rebellion
took place recently at Chang Ch, ~, near
Shar&,lai The uprising was SUI ,pre>scd
by the authorities and 90 Of the c, NnSpira'
tors we're executed.
At Monmouth Park Wednesday, during
the first race, George Smith, mana. 'er CT
the Commercial Cable Company at IS
Broa,l street, dropped dead from, heart dis
ease Ishilc Witnessing the finish.
At a meeting of the First Assembly Dis
trict OF the United Labor party ir n ew
York, Tuesday night, Rev. DR.. Edwa I'd
McG!ynn was elected delegate to the \ q
tional Convention at Syracuse, August g..
Orders have been sent from the Pope .
the Archbishop Of New York to eXcom-.
municate Rev. Dr. McGlynn, and to pub
iish tie decree OF communication in the
journals.
Prof Baldwin, at Quincy, H., on the
4th, performed wonderful feat He
jumped out Of 4 balloon at the height Of a
mile and landed on the earth safely by the
aid OF . parachute.
During q sham battle at Delta, Fulton
county, Ohio, on the 9Th, Postmaster W.
r. Huntington was fatally shot How the
bullet got in among the blank cartridges
nobody can explain.
The four Grand Army Posts of Utica,
y. Y. have resolved not to parade in
body. as they had intended to do at Clin-
ton, on the 18th, if President Cleveland be
present.
The date for the official reception of Gen.
Lawton. the new United States minister to
Austria, has not yet been fixed While it
remains uncertain, j. Fenner Lee, charge
datfairS will conduct the business Of the
American legation,
Sunday afternoon Sally Robinson. col
orcd, shot and killed Charles Williams,
colorcd, at Caperton Va. The trouble
grew out of Williams intimacy with Rob
iasons wife Robinson was lvnched BY q
crowd cf white men.
Pre!ler, the trunk murderer, has been re-
fused new trial, and sentenced 10 be
hanged on August II. The case will be
taken to tie United States Supreme Court,
which will secure the murderer a longer
lease CT life.
During a thunder storm in New York
Thursday evening lightning struck the
wire connected with the dynamite car
tridges placed in holes drilled for blasting
on the new aqueduct and caused their pre-
mature explosion, killing one iaborer.
The ore hundred and forty. ninth call
for SIC rs GOO three Dpr cp0f bonds O.-